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Busket Posket posted:My dad’s favorite purveyor of novelty shirts in the 90s, and my source for random terrible “pranks” like “gum that tastes bad” or “soap that’s not soap” My dad got the "Funny Side Up" catalog, which was the same crap:     
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Busket Posket posted:My dad’s favorite purveyor of novelty shirts in the 90s, and my source for random terrible “pranks” like “gum that tastes bad” or “soap that’s not soap” They died just recently too. My mom and I used to love browsing these things
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dialhforhero posted:I do, however, remember people wearing clothes with the labels that were huge or just screamed in big letters ABERCROMBIE AND FITCH or AMERICAN EAGLE or HOLLISTER and these shirts had some lovely inuendo or claimed there was some rugged outdoor event, et. al. My favorites were the ones that said PROPERTY OF [brand name/sports team] XXL EST [year] Like, do you not own your shirt? Are you property of [brand name/sports team]? Did you get lost in their store or stadium and now you’re their ward or something? And how about those racist A&F shirts? I remember seeing parody A&F shirts that said dumb poo poo like “Pimpercrombie & Bitch” (speaking of the most ‘90s things, ugh), but A&F was already plenty of that dumb poo poo themselves.
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Things You Never Knew Existed and Mad Magazine where the "after school poop" reading material of choice in my house in the 90's. My mom was smart enough to make sure the new issues were separated into different bathrooms so one sibling didn't hog it all and "stink it up" I still have a huge tote of my Mad Magazines and they are a treasure trove of pop culture. I didn't understand much about OJ's trial but I certainly learned the most about it from Mad.
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I remember when MadTV started and being hyped because my buddy had a Mad subscription. Then the only good skit I remember laughing at was the man-baby Richard “Look what I can do!” one. Terrible show.
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dialhforhero posted:I remember when MadTV started and being hyped because my buddy had a Mad subscription. Then the only good skit I remember laughing at was the man-baby Richard “Look what I can do!” one. The bob newhart “stop it” sketch is one of my favorite bits ever, but yeah, overall awful show.
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Yeah I loved MadTV back in the day but it's aged absolutely dreadfully and was not even good then and I was just easily amused. There's a collection of decades of MAD magazine on DVD I got from a Software, Etc that I load up and look through an issue or 2 every so often. It's also available on archive.org if anyone is interested.
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At least Mad TV had those animated Spy vs. Spy bits.
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doctorfrog posted:At least Mad TV had those animated Spy vs. Spy bits. And Kenny Rogers jackass and absolutely nothing else
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Unperson_47 posted:It's also available on archive.org if anyone is interested. Hell yeah. I want to encourage anyone who finds things they love on archive.org, to personally archive them themselves. Archive.org is too good to last in these evil times.
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Grassy Knowles posted:And Kenny Rogers jackass and absolutely nothing else I have a soft spot for Bobby Lee going "Daewoo, bounce!"
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Unperson_47 posted:There's a collection of decades of MAD magazine on DVD I got from a Software, Etc that I load up and look through an issue or 2 every so often. It's also available on archive.org if anyone is interested. Oh cool! I have the Totally Mad set but I've never figured out how to dump the issues onto my Linux machine.
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Grassy Knowles posted:And Kenny Rogers jackass and absolutely nothing else I enjoyed X-News  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn1VsnhMUAc
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MadTV is correctly described as some of the funniest LA comedians of their day being corralled into making some of the least funny material they could produce.
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Grassy Knowles posted:And Kenny Rogers jackass and absolutely nothing else https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqE7ZxH7BJE
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mind the walrus posted:MadTV is correctly described as some of the funniest LA comedians of their day being corralled into making some of the least funny material they could produce.
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There's this one episode of some show that I remember watching in the 90's that no one else seems to remember. It might have been a one-off PBS special or something. The show was about this woman who wanted to get her black cat taxidermized but didn't want to just have a stuffed cat, so she took it to a taxidermist and described the cat's personality to them. After the discussion, the taxidermist took the cat and did the wildest poo poo to it. The cat ended up being mounted to a base so it could stand on it's hind legs, wielding a staff in one paw and dressed in a long black dress. It was all capped off with a crawn of twigs that were woven into a circle. It looked like the most bizarre witch. When the woman got the cat back and she absolutely loved it. I remember her saying something to the effect of "This was her personality. You've captured her essence." This one episode of whatever show has lived rent free in my head for decades and people look at me like I'm crazy when I tell them about it. Anyone else remember this?
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I can feel the pain from leaning back to see the TV and the chair flipping out on me. I eventually devised a two mirror system that… sort of worked.
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I remember wanting an L-shaped/corner computer desk in that era with a keyboard tray that did not force you to put the monitor/keyboard on a diagonal in the corner like that. It was almost impossible to find. People loved that awkward configuration back in the day.
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Porfiriato posted:I remember wanting an L-shaped/corner computer desk in that era with a keyboard tray that did not force you to put the monitor/keyboard on a diagonal in the corner like that. It was almost impossible to find. People loved that awkward configuration back in the day. Sort of design by necessity. With CRT monitors, you HAD to have a keyboard tray or a much larger (getting to back wise) desk Making it a corner desk further fulfilled that since the very back of the corner wasn't getting used anyway, so might as well stuff as much as the CRT as you can.
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Chip McFuck posted:There's this one episode of some show that I remember watching in the 90's that no one else seems to remember. It might have been a one-off PBS special or something. The show was about this woman who wanted to get her black cat taxidermized but didn't want to just have a stuffed cat, so she took it to a taxidermist and described the cat's personality to them. After the discussion, the taxidermist took the cat and did the wildest poo poo to it. The cat ended up being mounted to a base so it could stand on it's hind legs, wielding a staff in one paw and dressed in a long black dress. It was all capped off with a crawn of twigs that were woven into a circle. It looked like the most bizarre witch. https://youtu.be/u7RPvOOjCvE
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I think this is the better late-90s cgi-filled music video: https://youtu.be/hUxN0K1ykNo
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I can hear the sound of my knees bouncing off that keyboard tray.
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Chip McFuck posted:I think this is the better late-90s cgi-filled music video: Peter Gabriel was always at the forefront so it's a shame that stuff like Big Time and Sledgehammer still look timeless but then with CGI he gave us Kiss That Frog and this abomination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt87bLX7m_o
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Phanatic posted:Peter Gabriel was always at the forefront so it's a shame that stuff like Big Time and Sledgehammer still look timeless but then with CGI he gave us Kiss That Frog and this abomination: horny Peter Gabriel is the best Peter Gabriel
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Phanatic posted:Peter Gabriel was always at the forefront so it's a shame that stuff like Big Time and Sledgehammer still look timeless but then with CGI he gave us Kiss That Frog and this abomination: Attached to a better song this might’ve spawned more different memes than any other single video.
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:Attached to a better song this might’ve spawned more different memes than any other single video. Sure, but a better song would require a better musician than Peter Gabriel.
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Late 90’s; the Promus Hotel Corporation Marketing Service Center in Tampa, Florida:   
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Gonz posted:Late 90’s; the Promus Hotel Corporation Marketing Service Center in Tampa, Florida: This is peak interior design. As a culture it's been all down hill from here.
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Wow, an entire store dedicated to, and furnished with, only Playstation? I never knew that existed.
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It feels so painfully consumerist, but it's sad how store decoration has just fallen off a cliff since the 90s. It like, even with flagship stores the closest you get to any place going 'all out' is on some bullshit minimalist design. Like I remember going to the Nike store in downtown Seattle and  (not my photo) It was just the most painfully generic urban industrial minimalist boring place ever. Clearly trying very hard to pull of an aesthetic but that aesthetic is the same one you can get in a goddamn Taco Bell or any fast food restaurant built/renovated in the last decade.
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ishikabibble posted:It feels so painfully consumerist, but it's sad how store decoration has just fallen off a cliff since the 90s. It like, even with flagship stores the closest you get to any place going 'all out' is on some bullshit minimalist design. Like I remember going to the Nike store in downtown Seattle and Niketown in Chicago in the 90's had like sneakers on little elevators and conveyor belts. I think there was a little quarter court with a hoop and a scoreboard. I also remember a ton of colored plexiglass.
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Very much how every single McDonalds nowadays looks like an orthodontist’s office in a medical plaza on the outside. Just absolute garbage.
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Gonz posted:Very much how every single McDonalds nowadays looks like an orthodontist’s office in a medical plaza on the outside. that's because of property investment poo poo. Nobody wants to build a franchise restaurant with a unique and bespoke, recognizable architecture anymore because when the business shuts down and/or a recession hits and you want to put the property on the market you've got this building that clearly looks like a former McDonalds or whatever. Case in point: there's a popular website that catalogs businesses occupying buildings that used to be Pizza Huts http://usedtobeapizzahut.blogspot.com/
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Ok Comboomer posted:Case in point: there's a popular website that catalogs businesses occupying buildings that used to be Pizza Huts http://usedtobeapizzahut.blogspot.com/ Mexican places or dispensaries. Pretty sure those are the only options.
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